Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 16: TreeTops Classics: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | TheBookSeekers

Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 16: TreeTops Classics: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde


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No. of pages 96

Published: 2001

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Great for age 6-10 years

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Mr Utterson, the lawyer, is concerned when he receives a will from his friend, Dr Jekyll. In it, the doctor asks for all his possessions to be passed to the sinister Edward Hyde. Utterson suspects that something is very wrong. He tries to find out the truth and discovers that things are far worse than he could ever have imagined. New features included in the book: illustrated character lists; notes on history; on page explanations of difficult words; and new teaching notes.

 

This book features in the following series: Treetops, Treetops Classics .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Oxford University Press .

Robert Louis Stevenson is perhaps best-known today for 'Treasure Island' and 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. Alan MacDonald lives in Nottingham. He writes both non-fiction and fiction as well as writing for radio and TV. He has a particularly good track record for writing page-turning and accessible historical books.

This book contains the following story:

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
In Robert Louis Stevensons novella Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Henry Jekyll struggles with evil urges and so creates a potion in an attempt to mask the hidden evil within himself. Once taken, the potion unleashes Jekylls inner demon and he becomes the cruel and remorseless Hyde. And as time goes on Hydes strength grows so strong that Jekyll is unable to control it. And all ends tragically.

This book is in the following series:

Treetops Classics

Treetops
All Stars Fiction are chapter books aimed at gifted and talented infants. Designed to be age appropriate, they include stories by top authors such as Geraldine McCaughrean, Margaret McAllister and Alan MacDonald, and have been created to motivate and challenge able infants. The books fall into book band colours gold, white, lime.


Often individual series are part of a bigger set. The sub-series this book is in forms part of the following wider set:

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